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Tanks for the memories: War upends ethnic relations in Estonia
Ethnic Estonians and Russian-speakers differ over the war in Ukraine, prompting government fears over integration.
NARVA, Estonia — Anna Gisser was out for a stroll through Narva’s leafy Siivertsi park last week, when the 82-year-old pensioner was stopped by two policemen and told to wait.
- Victor Jack
- Politico
Workers were in the park loading a Soviet-era tank memorial onto a truck and carting it off to a museum — part of Tallinn’s effort to remove what for ethnic Estonians glorifies half a century of brutal Soviet occupation, but what local Russian-speakers feel commemorates fallen Red Army soldiers from World War II.
“I feel disgusted…